17 Exclusive: Matthew Koma Acoustic Performance

Matthew Koma's no stranger to the music industry: He's written songs for Zedd and Swedish House Mafia and dates a pretty famous singer. But with his first album, Koma's ready to show off his own vocal chops. Listen to an exclusive performance of his single, "One Night!"

Seventeen: Did working with EDM artists influence your own sound at all?

MK: Yeah! Just seeing how Zedd and Swedish House Mafia worked inspired me to take pieces of that and use it when working on my own music. I'm really fortunate I got to work with them. I didn't actually grow up listening to dance music, but the songs I wrote are still coming from the same place of sincerity and honesty I use in my own songs. It's just a different sound driving it.

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17: What is your single "One Night" about?

MK: It's very tongue-and-cheek. I wrote it just for fun right before I went on tour and added it to the set just to see how people would respond to it. It was a very old-school way to test a song, but I kept seeing people tweet about it and really liking it, so I ended up not only making it the single, but basing the sound of the rest of the album on it, too.

MK: It happened pretty naturally! We met working on music together, which is a really intimate process because you're creating art together. We got to know each other really well right away and created more than a song—we created a relationship!

Watch Matthew Koma's acoustic performance of "One Night" below and click here to buy the song on iTunes!